plugawy blog

words Anna Bates

The Royal College of Art's graduate show has opened, and this year, the show-stopper was a plug. Min-Kyu Choi impressed every passer by with his neat, apparently market-ready plug that folds down to the width of an Apple MacBook Air. "The MacBook Air is the world's thinnest laptop ever. However, here in the UK, we still use the world's biggest three-pin plug," says Choi.

Linda Anderson, comScore VP of marketing solutions and author of the study, concludes that "...  marketers who attempt to optimize their advertising campaigns solely around the click are assigning no value to the 84% of Internet users who don't click on an ad...

That's what I call an "Ad fail"

Don't feel bad, it's okay not to write unit tests.

A little too Microsoft-y POV but I have to agree that people tend to advocate unit testing and TDD while not doing it properly.

Remember a long time ago, at the dinner table, when your kid brother mashed together a bunch of food that really should not have been mashed together — chicken, jello, gravy, condiments, corn, milk, peas, pudding, all that stuff — and proceeded to eat it? And loved it! And then your crazy uncle, having seen the look of disgust on your face, said: “it all goes to the same place!” Remember that? No? Then you were probably the one shoving nasty shit into your face, but the important thing to understand here is that your uncle is crazy. And so is Git.

After years of experience with computers I’m pretty sure progress bars move faster if you keep an eye on them. Same for loading webpages, saving large files and all other things that involve you having to wait.